Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Chips on shoulder, all that, everybody plays the game for different reasons. You've got to prove yourself every time you go out there. That's the reality.

We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here.

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.